Container for gases or liquids under high pressure



Aug. 4, 1931. A. BELDIMANO CONTAINER FOR GASES OR LIQUIDS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE Filed Jne 18. 1929 4 "l f. mx i Patented ug. 4, 1931 ALEXANDER BELDIMANO, OF ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS CONTAINER FOR4 GASES OR LIQUIDS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE Application filed .Tune 18, 1929, Serial 170.371,948, and in Germany June 26, 1928.

This invention relates to containers for gases or liquids under high pressure. In order that containers of this type are capable to resist to the high internal pressure, they 5 have been constructed hitherto in cylindrical shape .and with a correspondingly thick wall.

Now the size that can be given to such containers is a very limited one, because in a container of comparatively great diameter and intended to resist to a high specific gas pressure,for instance about 200 atm., this pressure becomes so high that excessively great wall thickness is needed to resist to it. Such containers therefore would be not only too eX- pensive, but when having a correspondingly great diameter, their manufacture would be impossible at all.

Now the object of the invention is to afford big containers for gases and liquids under high pressure and having comparatively thin walls which object is obtained by providing double walls and filling the space existing between them with a means impervious tc fluids while the walls are propped relatively to one another.

lVhen the container has a quadrangular cross section, the propping means may consist of anchor bolts extending normally to the walls, whilst in a cylindrical container the walls may be propped by supporting members which extend annularly or spirally inside or outside the outer wall.

In order that the invention can Abe more readily understood, some embodiments of the same are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings.

Fig. l is a longitudinal sectional View of one form of my invention,

Figs. 2 4 are longitudinal sectional views of different embodiments thereof.

In thev embodiments illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 the container consists of a jacket a and a container proper b oi any suitable material such as metal, concrete or the like, the space c existing between jacket a and container b being Iilled with a viscous liquid impervious to luids for instance of' a nature so as to be thick or solid at normal temperature but when heated becomes liquid and then is capable to fill the entire intermediate space c.

Tar or a similar material may be used for this purpose.

The container b may have only a comparatively small Wall thickness as it transmits the internal pressure through the tightening mass c to the jacket a which is anchored in itself. The concrete wall of the latter can be made of armored concrete.

In order to mutually prop the outer walls of the described gas or liquid container of quadrangular cross section, anchor bolts d,

c, f, Figure l, are provided which as to be seen from this ligure either pass through the wall of the jacket a and are held in place by nuts g and washers m of suitable size, or have their ends embedded in the wall of jacket a as illustrated in Figure 2, which ends have any suitable shape so as to reliably anchor the bolts within the wall of jacket a.

As to be seen from Figure 4, the longitudi 70 nal anchor bolts c of Figures l to 3 may be dispensed with in an oblong container as illustrated, by designing the front walls of' the jacket a so as to subside into abutments h which have a correspondingly large base z' the area of which must correspond to the internal pressure acting on the front walls. As containers of this type generally are embedded'in the ground the earth mass in its turn forms the abutment for the abutments L.

As illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, iron rods may be further provided which are embedded or inserted in the wall of jacket a. The modification illustrated in Figure 3 may also be used in erecting cylindrical containers.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figure 4 the iront walls of jacket a are likewise propped on one another by longitudinal anchor bolts e whilst the side wall, if cylindrical, is so strengthened either by external metal rings or by a coiled wire n so as to resist to radial pressure.

The ,described containers are kept tight by the above mentioned viscous substance without pores, as marked by c, whilst the internal pressure is transmitted to the anchor bolts that prop the walls, or to outer abutments 7L on which the walls rest.

It is, of course, to be understood that the 10 invention is not limited to the embodiments herein described, but is susceptible of embodiment in various forms Without deviating from the essence of the'invention.

All described containers are absolutely tight even When exposed to the highest pressures, and canehave anygreat dimensions, While the manufacturing costs are very loW.

Claims: y

l. A container for gases or liquids under high pressure, .comprising an inner and an outer container spaced from each other, a

Viscous substance impervious to iiuids in 'thev space between said containers, means for bracing said'out'er container to withstand pressure, said inner container serving merely as a partition between the contents of said inner container and ,said viscous substance.

2. Av container as specified in claim 1, adapted to be embedded in the ground, said outer container comprising end Walls and side Walls, said bracing means comprising foundation members having large base surfaces, said end Walls abutting on said end members and means for bracing said side Walls.

3. A container as specified in claim l in which said outer container is of cylindrical shape, said outer container comprising end Walls and cylindrical side Walls, and said bracing means-comprising tie rods extending longitudinally of saidY container and mutually bracing said end Walls, bracing means encircling said sidewalls.

4. A containeras speciiied in claim l in which said outer container comprises end Walls and side Walls, and said bracing means comprises said tie rods extendinglongitudinally of said container and mutually bracing said end Walls, and tie rods extending transversely of said container and mutually bracing said side Walls. Y

The foregoing specification signed at Rotterdam, Netherlands, this fifth dayof June,

ALEXANDER BELDIMANO. 

